Project Manager - SaaS

Project Manager - SaaS

Package: Basic £ + benefits

Industry: FinTech SaaS - Mid-Market & Enterprise

Why: Huge growth potential in EMEA and a scaling business

• Do you have experience project managing SaaS projects?
• Are you comfortable leading projects with budgets from £20k - £1m?
• Do you want to join a scaling business that's just received significant investment?

Our client are a leading Global FinTech SaaS vendor with a reputation for industry leading solutions. You will be joining as they continue to scale their EMEA operation following significant recent investment. You will be joining a business of over 1000 people globally, where employees have excellent longevity and a professional and mature working culture.

Their FinTech solutions are mainly aimed at companies within financial services such as banks, asset finance providers, automotive lenders and is sold at a Mid-Market to Enterprise level. Their customers rely on them to help protect and scale their financial organisations by streamlining process through technology.

In this role you will work with distributed teams to ensure that customer satisfaction is high and that client releases are delivered on time and within budget. You will work on multiple projects at the same time, mostly with existing customers who are looking for solutions updates and bespoke development. You will need to be able to manage multiple internal and external stakeholders across multiple projects. Experience with FinTech or Finance Software project management would be highly beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Definition and management of project initiation tasks such as project mandate, resource planning, kick off meetings, delivery planning, communication plans etc
• Working with the Service Delivery Manager to ensure support agreements are met and service standards are at the expected level
• Continually expanding understanding of the finance industry and Solifi products to better understand customer goals and business drivers
• Controlling and monitoring timelines, resource allocation, dependencies, budgets, costs, and quality of deliverables
• Line management where appropriate of Business Analysts, setting objectives and reviewing performance
• Compliance with project delivery governance e.g. change management, risk & issue management, financial reporting and status reporting
• Leading key stakeholder interactions, for example steering group meetings
• Working daily with delivery teams to ensure planned activities are understood and progressing on track
• Liaising with third parties where appropriate to ensure external tasks are tracked and delivered on time, on budget and to the required level of quality
• Managing escalations, risks and issues

About You

• Demonstrable track record working as a Project Manager within software delivery with responsibility for budgets up to 2mm
• 3+ Years Experience of working within a recognized project management methodology
• Comfortable delivering project to external clients, and managing both internal and external stakeholders
• Previous experience of delivering projects with delivery teams from multiple geographies and time zones would be advantageous
• Willingness to work away from home & travel to client sites when required
• Proficient with Microsoft PowerPoint & Excel
• Previous experience working with financial services or asset finance firms would be advantageous
• Previous experience working with high AOV FinTech solutions desirable